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UNITED STATES PATENT O EIcE.

PHILIP D. LAIBLE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,018, dated March22, 1904. Application filed June 4, 1903. Serial No. 160,000- (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP D. LAIBLE, a citi a machine to be employed bybottlers and the like for washing bottles, to save labor and expense andenable the bottles to be washed automatically and in rapid succession,to secure a simple construction and one not liable to get out of order,to enable the bottle to be easily inserted in and removed fromthemachine, to insure every portion of the surface of the bottles beingreached by the brushing appliances and water, and to obtain otheradvantages and results, some of which may be hereinafter referred to inconnection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved bottle-washing machine and in thearrangements, and combinations of parts of the same, all substantiallyas will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses ofthe claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in

. which like figures of reference indicate corresponding parts of eachof the several figures, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved machine devoidof a certain upper brush for Washing the bottoms of the bottles. Fig. 2is a hori- Zontal section, parts broken away, of the same, takencentrally through the arms of the bottle-carrying frame, as on line cc,Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of the ma chine without thesaid top brush before referred to. Fig. 1 is a detail plan of one of thebottle-carrying arms with a bottle in place thereon, and Fig. 5 is asimilar view with the bottle and holding-guides removed and showing aportion of the track beneath. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of one of thebottle-carrying arms, as on line y, Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 shows one of thesaid bottle-carrying arms in side elevation. Fig. 8 is a centralvertical section of the complete machine in its preferred form. Fig. 9is a plan of a certain top brush which engages the bottoms of thebottles. Fig. 10 is a cross-section of the same, as on line 2, Fig. 9.Fig. 11 is a plan of a modified form of bottle-carrying. arm. Fig. 12 isa detail view of a brush for engaging the interior of a bottle; and Fig.13 is an edge View of the baseplate upon which the bottle-carrying frametravels, a portion of the outer wall of the track being broken away todisclose the track more clearly. Fig. 14 is an elevation from its outerside of the bottle-carrying arm shown in plan in Fig. 11, the brushbeing omitted.

In said drawings, 1 indicates a suitable base or standard adapted tosupport my machine and having at its upper part lateral arms 2 2, bentupward at their ends, as at 3 3, and supporting a circular base-plate 4,upon which the bottle-carryingdevice travels. Said bottlecarrying devicecomprises a frame or wheel having a hub 6, with radial arms 7, said hubbeing seated centrally and rotatably upon the base-plate 4 and having anextension 8 projecting through an aperture in said base-plate 4. andcarrying beneath said'plate a bevelgear 9.' Axially through saidextension 8 and hub 6 of the bottle-carrying frame extends a tubularshaft 10, rotatably seated at its lower end in a socket 11 of the footor standard 1. Said tubular shaft 10 has keyed upon itself a bevel-gear12, arranged below the said gear 9 on the bottle-carrying frame, andthese gears are engaged, respectively, by drivinggears 13 14 uponhorizontal shafts 15 16, having bearings upon one of the arms 2 of thefoot or standard of the machine. Said shafts 15 16 are connected bygears 17 18, and one of them carries at its outer end pulleys 19, toreceive a driving-belt. (Not shown.) It will thus be seen that by themeans described the bottle-carrying frame and central shaft 10 aredriven in opposite directions or a relative movement of the same inopposite directions effected. The upper end of the said central shaft 10is closed and has fixed thereon a horizontally-disposed wheel 20, facedat its outer rim with layers of felt 21, adapted to engage the sides ofthe bottles to rotate them as they revolve on the carrying-frame, aswill be hereinafter more fully described.

Each arm 7 of the bottle-carrying frame has at its outer end a section22, hinged thereto by inserting its laterally-bent end 221 into atransverse socket 222 of the arm, as is common in pipe-fitting, andwhereby said section 22 may tip out of normal horizontal position. Eachsection 22 is extended at its outer end portion in the direction of thetrack 5 of the base-plate 4 and has at its under side a wheel 23,adapted to travel in said track 5, which is preferably a groove formedin the base-plate 4. For the greater part of its length said groove ortrack 5 is of such height as to hold the hinged sections 22 inhorizontal position; but at that side of the machine at which theoperator is to stand said track is depressed for a distance ofseventy-five degrees, more or less, as at 24 in Fig. 13, whereby thehinged sections 22 will be allowed to drop and throw the bottles carriedupon them out of vertical position, and therefore out of engagement withtherotating wheel 20. This permits a bottle which has been washed to beremoved and an unwashed bottle inserted in its place before the carryin-section 22 again reaches the elevated portion of the track.

It will be understood that the bottles before coming to my machine havebeen soaked in water, and it is the function of my device to brush andrinse the entire outer surfaces of the said bottles. To effect such abrushing, therefore, each hinged bottle-carrying section 22 is providedwith an upright brush adapted to enter a bottle 46, inverted upon thesame, and engage its entire inner surface as the bottle is rotated. Saidbrush comprises a tube 26, preferablyhaving a spiral series of bristles27 applied thereto and increasing in length toward the topof the brush,although I may under some conditions employ a strip of rubber 28, asshown in Fig. 27, for instance. At the top of the tube 26 is a resilienttuft 271, adapted to be bent over by the pressure of the bottom of thebottle and lie flat against said bottom to clean the same. Under someconditions I may employ instead of said tuft 271 a hinged piece 29,having a rubber blade 30, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, but which willeffect the same result.

At each side of the bottle-receiving brush described are standards 31,mounted by means of slotted feet 32 and clamping-nuts 33 upon the hingedsection 22, and carrying at their upper ends rollers '34, preferablyrubberfaced, to engage the outer surface of the bottle and hold the samein position. Two of these bearing-rollers 34 may be employed at oppositesides of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 4, although I prefer to employthree, as shown in Fig. 11, in which case the additional .one is carriedupon an arm 311, from the standard upon which one of the others isdirectly mounted. A brush 35 is also stationed upon the hinged section22 to engage the outer surface of the bottle, and, if desired, I mayemploy a tube 36 (shown in Figs. 4 to 7) to supply water to the outsideof the bottles. As the bottle is being cleansed a stream of water isconducted to the tubular shaft by means of a suitable connecting-passage37 upon the standard 1 of the machine, and the upper part of the passageof said shaft is perforated, as at 38, to communicate with longitudinaltubular channels 39 of the arms 7 of the bot tle-carrying frame, saidchannels extending through the joints of said arms into the hingedsections 22 and communicating with the tubular back of the interiorbrushes and with the tube 36, where the latter is used. These tubes thussupply the water through their apertures 251 361, respectively, to thebottlesurface. As illustrated in Fig. 6, the adjacent ends of thewater-passages of the arm 7 and its hinged section 22 coincide or are inalinement when the said hinged section is in normal horizontal position,and thus a flow of Water to the bottle is permitted to wash the same.\Vhen, however, the hinged section tips downward on the depressedportion of the track for removing a washed bottle and replacing it withan unwashed one, the adjacent ends of the passage donot register at thejoint of the arm, and the flow of Water is shut off to facilitate thework of the operator in charging bottles.

To engage the outer surface of the bottoms of the bottles as the sameare carried around upon the carrying-frame,1 have provided a curvedbrush 40, adjustably supported upon standards 41 from the base-plate 4,and having at, its under surface bristles 42 to engage thebottle-bottoms. Water is supplied to said brush by an independent pipe43, extending around the inner side of said brush, as at 44, and havinglateral apertures 45 to throw streams out through the bristles at theirbases.

In operation a constant supply of water having been turned on boththrough the passage 37 and to the brush 40, the machine is continuouslyrotated and tended by two operators, one of whom places a bottle uponeach hinged section just before it reaches the end of the depressedportion 24 of the track and IIO the other of whom removes such bottle asit 1 comes around to the other end of said depressed portion. In thismanner a bottle is washed by each revolution of one of thebottle-carrying arms 7, and the capacity of my machine is limited onlyby the number of said arms and the speed at which said arms may berevolved and yet permit the operators to remove and replace bottles.

Obviously the machine can be adapted to aaois different sizes ofbottles, as either quarts or pints, by shifting the guides 31 and brush35 upon each hinged section 22.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. In abottle-washing machine, the combination of a horizontally-revolvingframe having radial extensions or sections hinged to swing in verticalplane, an upright interior brush upon each section adapted to receiveupon itself an inverted bottle, other brushes adapted to engage theexterior of the bottle, means for supplying water, an interrupted trackbeneath said hinged sections, and means for rotating each bottle uponits interior brush.

2. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving frame, means upon said framefor rotatably supporting bottles, brushes upon said frame adapted toengage said bottles, a driving-wheel concentric with said frame andadapted to engage the bottles to rotate them on their supportsindependent of the motion of the frame, and water-supply means.

3. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving bottle-carrying frame,interior and exterior bottle-brushes upon said frame in relatively fixedrelation to each other, a driving-wheel independent of said brushes andsaid frame, adapted to engage the bottles to rotate them, andwater-supply means.

4.. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving bottle-carrying frame,interior and exterior bottle-brushes upon said frame in relatively fixedrelation to each other, a driving-wheel independent of said brushes andsaid frame,

adapted to engage the bottles to rotate them, bearing-rollers upon saidframe adapted to hold the bottles against said driving-wheel, andwater-supply means.

5. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of a series of travelinghinged sections each adapted to rotatably support a bottle, means forrotating said bottles, and a track for said sections having a portion ofdifferent altitude from the main portion and adapted to tip said hingedsections and disengage the bottles from said rotating means.

6. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of a series of travelinghinged sections each adapted to rotatably support a bottle,

means for rotating said bottles, a track for said sections having aportion of different altitude from the main portion and adapted to tipsaid hinged sections and disengage the bottles from said rotating means,and brushes adapted to brush the bottles while being rotated.

7. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of a series of travelinghinged sections each adapted to rotatably support a bottle, means forrotating said bottles, a track for said sections having a portion ofdifferent altitude from the main portion and adapted to tip said hingedsections and disengage the bottles from said rotating means, brushes toengage the bottles, and means adapted to supply water to the bottleswhile rotating and to shutoff the water when the bottle-carryingsections are tipped.

8. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving frame having radial arms orextensions hinged to swing in a direction perpendicular'to their planeof revolution, means for rotatably supporting a bottle on each section,brushes upon each section adapted to engage the interior and theexterior of the bottle, a driving-wheel concentric with said radial armsor extensions, guiding means swinging said frame-sections to alternatelythrow the bottles against said driving-wheel and disengage themtherefrom, and a water-supply.

9; In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of a revolving framehaving radial hinged sections each adapted to rotatably support aninverted bottle, means adapted to frictionally engage the bottles whenthe carrying-sections are in normal position, and a track beneath saidsections, having a depressed portion adapted to allow the said hingedsections to drop out of normal position and disengage the said bottlesfrom said rotating means.

10. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving frame, supporting meansupon said frame for rotatably holding an annular series of bottles, adriving-wheel having a padded periphery adapted to engage the inner sideof said series of bottles to rotate them, brushes arranged to engage thebottles, and water-supply means.

11. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving frame for rotatably holdingan annular series of bottles, a driving-wheel' having a broad tire offelt adapted to engage the inner side of said series of bottles torotate them, brushes arranged to engage the bottles, and water-supplymeans.

12. In a bottle-washing machine, a revolving frame having radial arms orsections hinged to swing in a direction at right angles to their planeof revolution, means on each section for rotatably supporting a bottle,a brush upon each section adapted to enter the interior of a bottlethereon, other brushes adapted to engage the exterior of a bottle, adriving-wheel concentric with said frame and adapted to peripherallyengage the bottles to rotate them, means for swinging said sectionsalternately against and away from said driving-wheel, and awater-supply.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this28th day of May, 1903.

PHILIP D. LAIBLE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUSSELL M. EVERETT.

